Ghent University
Ghent University is well known for its marine benthic ecology laboratory (mainly focussing on community studies and food web studies of benthic organisms) and use of biodiversity measurements for policy and management (EU-ENCORA, EU-NoE MarBEF); for its taxonomic expertise of benthic organisms (nematodes, copepods, polychaetes, diatoms) and the biology of protists, and for a strong European research collaboration in deep-sea research and extreme environments.
Since 2001 Ghent University is organizing a two year Master programme on Marine and Lacustrine sciences (MARELAC). Ghent University also has research agreements with the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ-Ostend, Belgium) for Data and information management (the IOC-offices and the ESF Marine Board are also hosted by the VLIZ and regular training courses are given there on several aspects of data- and information management), very important for setting up European policies.
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